{"id":1875,"date":"2011-09-27T13:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T17:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2011-09-27T13:31:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T17:31:34","slug":"work-those-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2011\/09\/work-those-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Work those Lines!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Design, you should always be encouraged to take a good look at the \u00a0lines<\/strong> in a photograph that you\u2019re trying to combine with text and graphics.<\/p>\n

Repetition is one of the most important design principles and this is a natural implementation of that idea. By analyzing the photo and following its directionality, you sometimes can find incredibly easy ways to make your graphics and text look truly integrated, as if the image was created expressly for the purpose you\u2019re using it for, a great illusion !<\/p>\n

The first step using the lines in a photo is to analyze the image\u2019s content and use any hard lines to help align your artwork in a very literal fashion.<\/p>\n

It is important to note that not every image will lend itself to the technique. However, learning to be more aware of how the existing content in a photograph can be used to guide and inspire you to create unique designs that break away from the cookie cutter mold that\u2019s so easy to fall into.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a look using first,\u00a0\u00a0some easy analysis<\/p>\n

The bricks in this photo form natural blocks. Headlines are set conventionally and stacked, making complimentary blocks.<\/p>\n

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Next , a long tail blouse, plunging V-neck, and a sweeping, fluid pose yield a beautiful sleek top-to-bottom line which gets amplified by the vertical nameplate.<\/p>\n

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Lastly, we\u2019ll be using a method that\u2019s very similar to the repetition methods above, but in a more complex manner.<\/p>\n

If we think about the strongest natural lines in this photo (below), they don\u2019t really stretch across the image like those in the previous examples. Instead, we see a very defined pyramid take shape.<\/p>\n

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We can use this shape as inspiration for how we place our text on the page, just as we did with the bird photo. To do this, draw the lines that make up the triangle, then copy that triangle and place it in the area to the left. Finally, use this new triangle as a guide for text placement.<\/p>\n

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Notice that, in the final result below, we didn\u2019t actually continue the pyramid shape all the way to the bottom. Instead, my lines of text seemed to naturally conform to an almost diamond shape, and that\u2019s completely acceptable. Once again, you\u2019re making the rules here so feel free to distort and rethink the natural lines in the photo rather than simply taking them so literally.<\/p>\n

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Photographs by Daniel Zedda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Design, you should always be encouraged to take a good look at the \u00a0lines in a photograph that you\u2019re trying to combine with text and graphics. Repetition is one of the most important design principles and this is a natural implementation of that idea. By analyzing the photo and following its directionality, you sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-insights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}